Pollution Prevention

POLLUTION PREVENTION

Pollution Prevention is the Army's preferred approach, where timely and cost-effective, to achieve and maintain compliance with environmental laws and regulations.

Prevent pollution from all sources to the extent practicable by:

• Reducing pollution from the source.
• Modifying manufacturing, packaging, and shipping processes, maintenance and other industrial practices.
• Modifying product designs.
• Developing and modifying acquisition systems.
• Recycling/reuse (to include implementing water and energy conversation measures), especially in closed-loop processes.
• Preventing disposal and transfer of pollution between media.
• Meeting affirmative procurement requirements and promoting the acquisition and use of environmentally preferable products and services.
• Promoting the use of nontoxic substances.
• Use pollution prevention to complement, and where practicable, replace traditional pollution control approaches.
• Incorporate pollution prevention planning throughout the mission, operation, or product life cycle.

Major Goals:

• Reduce use of products that degrade the environment.
• Invest in pollution prevention in all mission and support areas, as applicable.
• Minimize the use of toxic and hazardous materials and processes in all life cycle phases of acquisition programs, logistics support, modification of existing weapons systems, and installation management.
• Implement pollution prevention opportunities and lessons learned across the Army.
• Incorporate material inventory and hazardous waste (HW) disposal.